Indeed, the influence of Japanese tea ceremony is so great that we cannot avoid it. If you want to talk about Japanese tea ceremony, you must first talk about Master Rong.

From 1 14 1 year to 12 15 year, a Japanese monk named Rong appeared. It was 400 years after Yung Wing left Jiao Ran, and he had arrived in the Song Dynasty in China. Rong became a monk at the age of fourteen. At first, he studied Tiantai Sect and Tantric Sect, and later he became a Japanese Shinto, instead of our present Tibetan secret. At the age of 28, Rong once visited China and joined Tiantai Sect in the Song Dynasty. Nineteen years later, at the age of forty-seven, he came to Dasong again and changed to Zen. He studied the Huanglong School of Zen, which was divided into Huanglong School and Lin Ji School. When I arrived in Tiantai Mountain, I learned Zen from Master Chang Huai and brought a lot of treasures when I went back.

The foreign student is going back. Mr. China can't let him go back empty-handed. He should bring him something. What good things should he bring? The first good thing is a lot of tea seeds and seedlings. Rongxi brought them back and planted three places. One is to build a back vibration mountain in front of the building, and the other is Bodo Fu Sheng Temple. Three highly variable seeds were placed on the mother's tail, and soon they were planted in it. Uji tea in Japan is very famous now. It was brought back from China by Master Rong of Lin Jizong and planted in Japan. The second good thing is some paintings and architectural drawings of China, and some Buddhist scriptures.

Rong Hong became interested in tea and wrote a book called "Eating Tea for Health", which was about 400 years later than Lu Yu. At that time, tea was really eaten, just like matcha, ground into powder, and tea powder was eaten with tea residue. Tea in Tang and Song Dynasties is also edible, so it is called "eating tea". Rong wrote this book, and tea attracted attention in Japan. Many people like it. Including the tea he offered to treat the general, which was recognized by the Japanese from the medical point of view and widely accepted by everyone.

Rong did two things, one was to bring back tea seeds, and the other was to write the book "Drinking Tea for Health". With these two things, he was regarded as the "tea ancestor" by Japan. By the time Tea for Health was written, Rong Xi was seventy-four years old. The book includes two parts: one is the harmony between the five internal organs and the door, and the other is the removal of the ghost door, mainly from the perspective of therapeutic function. A new thing, you say it is a drink, then I also drink boiled water, well water and spring water, but from a medical point of view, it will definitely be more acceptable in the first stage of promotion.

Now let's look at Lu Yu's Tea Classic, which is more than 400 years earlier than Rong Xi. The first paragraph is about "thrift". The first part of Rong's "Eating Tea for Health" is about tea, which is "tea, the last dose of fairy medicine for health, and the magic skill of human relations." Lu Yu's Talking about Tea is a good medicine, which has the function of "diligence and thrift", and Rong's Talking about Tea is a good thing for beauty and a wonderful skill to prolong life. So Rong's level feels a little lower than Lu Yu's. From the first sentence of Rong, tea has been widely circulated in Japan, and everyone likes it.

Rong returned to Japan, became the founder of Lin Jizong, and built Jianning Temple in Kyoto, which was visited by many people in China. Because the Zen style and tea he led influenced many people, as a result, another monk Daoyuan also went to China. Daoyuan became a monk in Xishan at the age of fourteen, so he went to China to study Zen. As a result, he found that Lin Jizong was not to his liking and Cao Dongzong was more to his liking, so Daoyuan went to Cao Dongzong, China, and went back to build Yongping Temple, which was later Big Ben in Cao Dongzong. Since then, Zen has been widely practiced in Japan since 1200. Decades later, another thing happened: Song was destroyed by Yuan.

After the demise of the Song Dynasty, a large number of Japanese monks went to China to study. As a result, as soon as they fled, monks from China fled to their students, and many Zen masters from China also fled to Japan, bringing China's habit of drinking tea in temples to Japan.

When Japanese monks left China, they also took some very important things with them. I brought a calligraphy by Yuan Wu Keqin Zen Master. The content of this calligraphy is what we often see as "Zen tea blindly". Looking up the historical documents of China, we seldom find that these four words were put before the Republic of China. What we often see in tea culture now is actually exported from Japan to China for sale in the last twenty years. At first, everyone thought that these four words were put forward by the Japanese.

I later learned that this "Zen Tea Blindly" was originally written by Zen Master Yuan Wuke Qin of the Song Dynasty, and it was the calligraphy that Japanese monks got from Yuan Wuke Qin when they returned to Japan. It is said that this calligraphy is now hidden in Dade Temple in Kyoto, and some people say it is hidden in Tokyo National Museum. According to the records, the word is original in Japan, but I have been to Japan many times and have not found the original. It would be great if we could find these four words written by Yuan Wu Keqin. Mo Bao left by a monk in the Song Dynasty can be preserved to this day. If everyone here has a chance to see it, please report it to me as soon as possible. I need the calligraphy of these four words. What's the use? I want to make a batch for my relatives and friends, because it is the most authentic, which at least proves that this kind of "Zen tea blindly" was not bought by the Japanese, but by our ancestors.

Rong Yu established Jianning Collection in 1202, and then he combined Tiantai Sect, Tantric Sect and Zen Sect into one, forming a school with its own unique style. Then we went to Japan and saw many quadrangles, which were very beautiful or had their own quadrangle architectural style. The source of this aesthetic thought is Lin Jizong's thought brought back by Rong, and it also comes from China.